i know how you feel about it being gone like that... but i think that is pretty awesome that someone stole one of your first oil paintings out of a museum... first off they liked it enough to steal it out of a museum and second, it was one of your first and it was in a museum... great picture though... im sure its worth quite a bit now, and feel better knowing that whoever has it probably really appreciates your art...

Thanx for your wonderful comment, it is sad that i dont have her anymore, i loved the original very much, it looked even better then the photo. I also want to thank you for giving me a favorite i am happy you like her too.

No problem - she's probably the most breathtaking thing I've ever seen! That the original is even better........leaves me breathless! If I ever get word of who took her from you, I will come down upon them like the HAMMER OF THE GAWDS!!!

that is downright amazing. i've rarely seen such smooth color blending with traditional painting methods. i'm utterly jealous i'd love to know how you did it. and i can't believe someone stole it. talk about disrespectful! i am so sorry to hear that...

ooohhh, i am so flattered by your kind compliment. When i paint then i use therps first to lay out everything and then mix the oilcolors with paint-mediums to get a better covering and last i try to glaze transparently over it. But by this one i think i did not know how to do glace then.

it was a ca.A3 size one. I think watercolors and colored pencils could be well suited for your detailed stile. mix them together i mean when you make the drawing first with a colored sepia pencil (only lines and structures and some shadows) and then lightly colored with watercolor until you like the dept. you can still hi-light with some acrylics in the end. Oils need a lot of understanding and are more difficult to master for such a detailed artwork then acrylics because of the slow drying. I hope you have the ingredients already at home. I hope you will try it out by chance.... it is so difficult to scan or photograph a pencil-drawing and yours must look even more amazing in real. Love your work ps: ask your artstore for the best sheet of thick fine aquarellpaper.

thanks so much for your advice i'll certainly give it a try, though i may have to do a couple things differently since my pieces don't come to be without a LOT of erasing i have tried colored pencils, but i didn't much care for the grainy look that they have... that's part of why i use blending sticks to get the smoothest blending possible with little to no pencil strokes visible in shading and similar things but i'll certainly give water colors a try. my mom used to paint with them. maybe she can give me some pointers as well...

oh! the colors and shading are brilliant! for some reason i never dare to make shadows so bold, but i think it makes it look very realistic, i love that. She looks like you can almost reach in and touch her, and feel the texture of her skin...

This is really a fantastic painting and its such a shame that it was stolen. I wonder what possesses people to steal things like this?... Well at least you still have a picture of it!

hope i will at least find out one day where it ended up. It was my first finished oil-painting, i wanted to keep it because i putt a lot of love into it. Thanx so much for your support, i admire your talent a lot!